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| Title | Children in school lunch line, Seattle, 1939 |
| Photographer | Staff Photographer
Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
| Date | 1939 |
| Caption | Each weekday, Seattle's 55, 000 elementary school children lined up for lunch, carrying tickets to pay for their meals. Parents who could afford it paid for their childrens' tickets. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer's annual Christmas Fund campaign raised money to buy lunch tickets for needy school children. |
| Notes | Handwritten on negative: School lunches.
Handwritten on sleeve: Seattle - schools - lunches.
Caption by MOHAI staff.
Date photograph was filed at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (date of photograph and file date may differ by a month or more): December 14, 1939. |
| Subjects | School children--Washington (State)--Seattle; School meals--Washington (State)--Seattle; Cash registers--Washington (State)--Seattle; Schools--Washington (State)--Seattle |
| Places | United States--Washington (State)--Seattle |
| Digital Collection | Museum of History & Industry Photograph Collection |
| Image Number | PI25794 |
| Ordering Information | To order a reproduction or to inquire about permissions contact photos@mohai.org or phone us at 206-324-1126. Please refer to the Image Number and provide a brief description of the photograph. |
| Credit Line | Seattle Post-Intelligencer Collection, Museum of History & Industry, Seattle; All Rights Reserved |
| Repository | Museum of History & Industry, Seattle (MOHAI) |
| Repository Collection | Seattle Post-Intelligencer Collection |
| Type | Image |
| Physical Description | 1 nitrate negative: b&w; 4 x 5 in. |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from print made from original negative as a 3000 pixel TIFF image in 8-bit grayscale, resized to 640 pixels in the longest dimension and compressed into JPEG format using Photoshop 6.0 and its JPEG quality measurement 3. |
